Hollow Land
Israel's Architecture of Occupation
Eyal Weizman (Author, Goldsmiths College, University of London)
A Verso book
Groundbreaking exposé of Israel’s terrifying reconceptualization of geopolitics in the Occupied Territories and beyond.
Hollow Land is
a groundbreaking exploration of the political space created by Israel’s
colonial occupation.
In this journey from the deep subterranean spaces
of the West Bank and Gaza to their militarized airspace, Eyal Weizman
unravels Israel’s mechanisms of control and its transformation of the
Occupied Territories into a theoretically constructed artifice, in
which all natural and built features function as the weapons and ammunition
with which the conflict is waged. Weizman traces
the development of these ideas, from the influence of archaeology on
urban planning, Ariel Sharon’s reconceptualization of military defense
during the 1973 war, through the planning and architecture of the
settlements, to contemporary Israeli discourse and practice of urban
warfare and airborne targeted assassinations.
In exploring Israel’s methods to transform the landscape
and the built environment themselves into tools of domination and control, Hollow Land lays bare the political system at the heart of this complex and terrifying project of late-modern colonial occupation.
Book Details
- Hardcover
- June 2007
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ISBN 978-1-84467-125-0
- 6.5 × 9.6 in
/ 318 pages
- Territory Rights: USA and Dependencies and the Philippines.
Endorsements & Reviews
“Eyal
Weizman brilliantly deconstructs Israel’s yoking of traditionally
humanist disciplines and discourse to the service of its campaign
against the Palestinians. This book is chilling but essential reading.” — Ahdaf Soueif
“Hollow Land
is a remarkably original work that confirms Eyal Weizman’s
indispensable role as a critic of the sinister and ubiquitous
instrumentality of space in contemporary politics and life.” — Michael Sorkin
“Hollow Land
is a remarkable achievement. Scholarly and poetic in its epic reach,
and narrated with the clarity of vision and sensibility of an artist, Hollow Land is destined to become a classic.” — Karma Nabulsi
“A startling exercise in what it means to think through the axiomatics of occupation, capture and subjection... Weizman boldly attempts to create an entirely new method to conceptualize the relationship between surfaces, movement, and the tools of war.” — Achille Mbembe
“A wrenching account of the multiple ways in which the land of Palestine has been hollowed out by Israeli occupation. Weizman's stunning combination of words and images is at once a brilliant critique of the politics of space and a searing indictment of colonial rule and dispossession.” — Derek Gregory
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